Humanity Return

Ch. 79 – Lies

The audience around the two of them finally realized the meaning of the number on the green-haired young man's face.

The hundred strongest people of this group had tattoos that signified their position within the group, which could only be changed by the group leader back then.

With such a young age he had managed to reach such a high rank from the hundreds of other elite members, showing that his abilities were definitely not small.

The green-haired youth, Tenma looked at his opponent's back with a cold expression.

“Hum~”

Leinn had already lowered his big bag and was grabbing into it while turning his back on his opponent.

“...”

A very rash action from Leinn, but Tenma did not dare to make any moves and only extended her right hand.

“Quickly give the antidote to the poison now, do not force me-“

“No poison cure”

Silence filled the stadium, everyone there could not believe what they had just heard.

Leinn looked unconcerned and smiled after finding what he was looking for.

Tenma's expression became even colder after hearing that. His outstretched hand had already slowly decreased and grabbed the handle of the knife at his waist.

A moment before he could make a move, his opponent pulled out his hand from his bag and threw something in a single motion.

Surprisingly it was drifting to the right side of Tenma, to an empty spot.

Clangs!

The audience became shocked from the sound of the iron impact that sounded from that empty spot, followed by Tenma's body turning into fragments of light.

It turned out that what Leinn had just thrown was a short throwing knife, which fell and stuck on the stone floor after hitting something.

Near the blade fell, bits of light began to appear as well and a person's form began to form.

Finally Tenma appeared with two knives in her hand, who had just fended off the throwing knife.

It turned out that Tenma who stood on the arena from the start was not his real body, but an illusion.

But all the spectators there could clearly hear the sound of the impact when his weapon touched the Slime's transparent tentacle before.

How could the illusion touch such a real thing?

“You have an interesting ability” said Leinn who began to wake up again while carrying his big bag.

Tenma showed a surprised expression as she looked at the smile on her opponent's face, this was the first time she had met an opponent who could break her secret that quickly.

Roland who was on the podium also looked a little surprised to see the appearance of Tenma from that empty place, then he looked like he remembered something and shook his head with a faint smile.

Adeline, who was sitting next to Aura who was still dumbfounded, seemed to want to shout something at the black-haired young man, before the next sentence stopped her.

“Oh, the poison is also no”

“Huh?”

A confused voice could be heard from the entire stadium.

“I lied”

The sound disappeared from inside the stadium, then replaced with the audience who began to make a scene. They could not believe the black-haired young man saying such a thing without a second thought.

The biggest commotion came from the blue haired girl who had just woken up from her shock and looked like she wanted to beat up the young man with a stick in her hand.

It was fortunate that Aura managed to come to her senses in time and restrained the girl with her body.

“I can't believe he did that! He thought he could do all the things as he pleased?!”

Aura patted the shoulder of the girl beside him to try to calm him down, then turned her attention to the green-haired young man.

“Tenma Makage..”

Adeline who had stopped raging looked at the girl's gaze and realized something.

“You recognize that young man?”

“You could say so..”

The aura seemed to have no intention of explaining further and just stared silently.

Roland was seen turning his head towards the two girls after hearing their exchange.

“The technique the young man showed was quite great. I myself was not aware of the fake body..”.

“So Leinn will lose?!”

An excited voice came out from Adeline's mouth behind her. He looked delighted after hearing that, but frowned again after hearing the continuation.

“Unfortunately he met Leinn as his opponent this time”

Roland showed a small smile before returning his attention to the arena, to the two youths who were looking at each other without saying anything.

Adeline realized she would not get an answer from the two people in front of her and went back to paying attention to the fight as well.

‘Tenma..’.

Back on top of that arena, there was no movement other than when Leinn folded his hands and smiled at Tenma. He had already maintained this position for a full minute.

Tenma was of course very surprised after hearing his opponent's words but did not dare to lower his alertness. Both of his hands were already clasping his weapons and he started humbling his horses.

Tap-Clang!

The blade came to a halt before it touched Leinn's neck, hitting the sword eye that was peering out of its sheath in the black-haired young man's hand.

Clear who was above Leinn's head trembled in surprise when she saw his tentacles writhing on the floor behind the green-haired young man.

Everyone in the stadium could clearly see the difference in strength shown by Tenma compared to before that.

His original body turned out to be able to show strength several times that of his previous illusionary body.

Tenma lightly kicked the stone floor beneath him and managed to cut off the tentacles that were blocking him, followed by a swing of his knife towards his opponent's neck once more

Bham

A loud kick stopped his attack and curbed it backwards ten meters.

“Hm..”

Leinn looked at his kick that hit Tenma's knife and failed to hit his body with an interested expression. He felt quite amazed by the young man's reaction speed that could turn his attack into a defense in an instant.

“Baik”

Leinn finally pulled out his sword and started running towards Tenma and started to counterattack.

Clang clang...

The sound of iron clashing was heard repeatedly inside the stadium, turning into a melody that adorned the great scene.

Leinn continued to run while launching slash after slash towards that opponent and who, surprisingly, was able to endure receiving all of that.

“Hah..!”

Tenma seemed able to dodge most of the attack and only fended off what he could not avoid, but the impact sound still happened several times in one second.

He also continued to counterattack at every small gap his opponent pointed out without success.

Most of the spectators could only see the black-haired young man's hand turning blurry and the entire body of the green-haired young man moving around quickly to dodge the attack.

This was a fight between two speed-type people with a fairly high level.

Clang Clang Clang...

“Murid new students this year is very convincing, it looks like we will be able to take back the number one position of ours”

“Unexpectedly other than the two geniuses who will be entering this year, we get two Magic User geniuses and two youths who have such high abilities... Hahaha!”

The brown-skinned man who was not wearing a shirt laughed loosely after hearing Isaac's words, shaking his obvious body muscles.

Other teachers were seen to show mixed expressions.

Some showed the same opinion as the two teachers in front of them, while others showed a grim expression after realizing the capabilities of the new generation.

They are not too confident to teach them anything.

“So..”.

The muscular man finally stopped laughing and immediately showed a serious expression while looking up at the arena.

“Ya..”

Isaac also showed the same expression without showing the slightest casual feeling he had shown before.

Their gazes were not fixed on the exchange between the two youths, but rather a transparent blob that was crawling out of the arena.

Only a few people were aware of that small, almost invisible transparent blob, which was identical to the transparent blob that was above the black-haired young man's head at the moment.

“Kyuu..”.

Aura and Adeline also noticed the newcomer who was crawling towards them, they both turned to Leinn and found Clear still in over his head.

After a while, the Slime managed to climb the podium and arrive in front of their seats. Its size was only a tenth of Clear riding on Twig's head earlier.

“Clear..?”

“Kyuu!”

Clear-small jumped up and finally landed on Aura's lap and trembled small, looking elated.

Adeline and Roland simply stared at the creature in bewilderment, admiring its new unique abilities.

In the front seat of the teacher's area, Isaac looked towards the podium with a serious expression. In his head revolved old memories from his youth, memories that could not be forgotten by the people of his generation.

“Calamity Slime..”